Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1887-05-04
STATE, COAST AND ELSEWHERE.

There are rumors in Modoc comfy
of startling revelations regarding Of.
ticlal corruption soon to be made.
The gang of horse. thieves now I'm.
der arrest at Tucson are wanted in So.
nora to answer for sundry murders.
A new steamer is being built at the
Union Iron Works, San Francisco. 1t
is for Yerington and Bliss and will be
used on Lake Tahoe.
A northeast wind has filed the
straits in upper Lake Michigan with
ice, and steamers and sailing vessels
are unable to yet through.
An unimproved lot in San Diego,
Cal, 100 feet square, sold for $4,000
last Saturday. A year ago it could
have been bought for 81 900.
The election in Sonora, Mex, passed
off quietly, and resulted in the election
Of Lorenzo Torres for Governor and
Ramon Corral Vice. Governor.
Miss Ada Leigh, who successfully
established home for American
girls at Paris, is making an effort to
found similar institution for voting
men.
Louis Bevier who formerly was a
book. keeper at the Pyramid Lake In.
dian Reservation. and for the last two
years has been IN Central America
trying his luck as coffee planter, is
in Carson.
More of the pro. Russian cons piracy
has been discovered at Sofia. Several
men who were formerly officers in the
Bulgarian army have been arrested
for active participation IN the new
movement.
Montana claims to have the four
greatest mines in the world-the Ana
conda, Bluebird, Granite Mountain
and Drum Lummon. Their com.
bined product for the present year
viii approximate $9,00O0O0.
Clipper ships offer to take wool
around Cape Horn from SAN Fran.
cisco for 81 per hundred pounds; the
Canadian Pacific railroad asks 81 80
per hundred, and the Pacific Mail the
same rate by way of Panama.
"A bill has been introduced in the III.
inois Legislature limiting the amount
any person or corporation may take
BY descent or will The limit is fixed
at $4,000 In money or i 500 acres of
land each to a surviving wife, Child Or
corporation. Any surplus goes to
the State.
The California pioneers now resid.
ing in Washington have decided TO
hold their proposed reunion on the
14th of May. ahd Celebrate the occa
sion by shad bake and an Excursion
to Marshall Hall, situated on the Poto.
mac on the opposite side of the river,
near Mount Vernon.
Tile Castle Garden authorities re
l'port steady increase of immigration.
Superintendent jackson OF Castle Gar.
Eden says that large proportion Of the
emigrants now arriving at New York
are bound for California. Most of
them go to Los Angeles and other
southern parts of the State.
8. E. Phinney and 5. ID. Stewart the
owners and capitalists who are fur.
nlshing the money for the develop.
ment of The lone property are still al
the mines watching the progress made
IN increasing the Ore capacity Of The
mill aud the out look OF the mines as
bullion producers. They want more
men to put to work rs their force elm
ployed is short. M. II. Peck an eX
perienced mining and mill man is
Superintendent.
c A. Richards placed cuttings of
the locust, poplar and cottonwood
species in bottles containing water
about week ago and they have AL.
ready thrown out roots and buds. He
will place soil in the bottles IN few
days till all the water is absorbed and
then break tie bottle and place the
slips into the ground not disturbing the
dirt around the roots. 1t is very sell
dom that the slips fail to grow and he
has planted almost all his trees In this
way.
Boston Is to have statue of Lief
Ericsson, 10 commemorate the early
voyages ol the Ndrsemcnlto this con'l'
nent, which was modelled by Miss
Annie Whitney, and has been cast IN